Button your SHIP - Nov. 19. 2008

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It's here!

Conan the Cimmerian
Air
Ambush Bug

And a desperate longing look at Jack Kirby's The Demon Omnibus

Ambush Bug

Ambush Bug
- and wasn't there supposed to be a softcover TB collection of Ambush Bug, announced a while ago?

AIR #4
EX MACHINA #39
SPIRIT #23
PAX ROMANA #4
ENDERS GAME BATTLE SCHOOL #2
UNCANNY X-MEN #504
X-FACTOR #37
X-MEN LEGACY #218

Just Ambush Bug for me, even though the last issue was pretty spot-off. The Showcase Prez Ambush Bug is in the BRAND NEW Feb solicits, but won't be out until March. By which time, there may not even be a DC Comics left.

Let's see...

AIR #4
AMBUSH BUG YEAR NONE #4
EX MACHINA #39

Plus browsing the deeply discounted (due to a moving sale) graphic novels for anything I've been putting off getting.

I read the Jonathan Ames graphic novel this week. It was pretty good.

just got Moomin vol 3 at the bookshop too! fuck a financial crisis, it was $40.

didn't see that kirby/demon collection in forbidden planet this lunchtime

did see (and desire)
- first two volumes of tesuka's black jack
- essential hulk volume five
- chip kidd's 'controversial' batmanga book
- third volume of thimble theatre
- that nice tomb of dracula hardcover

For me:

JSA Magog special -- Maaaaaaaaaaaaybe. I'll look through it first.
Supergirl -- Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe. I'll look through and figure out how relevant or skippable it is in terms of New Krypton plot.
Fantastic Four
Uncanny X-Men
X-Men Legacy
X-Factor
Angel

Wasn't RIP supposed to come out this week?

THEY'RE DELAYING TO SYNC UP WITH DARK KNIGHT DVD RELEASE.

But not really.

GOD, JUST:
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL
and last week's BPRD.

I also may take another look at the B/F UNCANNY, which very well may have gained some gusto since the rather tedious first issue - I dunno.

I got 30 early-80s pre-Baxter LOSH issues on Sunday--for $20. OOH BABY BABY. (I was supposed to be buying a crib) I kinda think this is where I'm going with comics, ie amassing a collection, since I'm increasingly cooled on everything not Final Crisis or Batman RIP at DC right now. And post FC/BRIP? I don't know if there's a place for me in TODAY'S DC Comics.
THAT SADFACE IS MINE!!!

> (I was supposed to be buying a crib)

A LONGBOX IS NOT A BASSINET!

My NewDadFriend down the street says his 3-mo-old sleeps on the couch. THE COUCH.

Like a houseguest.

On the upside, my wife from over my shoulder remarks, the kid is destined to be A Reader.

Good Lord (choke)--I don't think there's anything I'm buying this week! That's just weird!

Okay, maybe if I stumble into a pile of $$$ I'll pick up the Garth Ennis Punisher omnibus. And I recommend the Love & Capes collection to those of you who might enjoy it (think "Powers" as a sitcom). But really, I think for once I won't be making a trip to the funnybook store.

Air, Pax Romana and Atomic Robo(maybe) for me.

It was awfully nice for the Matt Fraction who writes Iron Man and Iron Fist to show up and write an issue of Uncanny X-Men. It's either Ed Brubaker is a big problem, or Fraction suddenly remembered that a great deal of people read the X-Men and that he should put effort into things bearing his name.

Speaking of UXM, I jumped off of the comix bandwagon for a while when most of the current newbie mutants were introduced and really fleshed out. I know about the rapid-aging thing with Pixie but was she always written as being balls-out awesome or is this a recent development? (Also she's kind of AOA Blink pt 2, isn't she?)

It was awfully nice for the Matt Fraction who writes Iron Man and Iron Fist to show up and write an issue of Uncanny X-Men. It's either Ed Brubaker is a big problem, or Fraction suddenly remembered that a great deal of people read the X-Men and that he should put effort into things bearing his name.

It's fun to imagine Angel and Beast are vacationing in an issue of CASANOVA. ALSO: I feel kind of embarrassed for the entire genre that it's taken this long for someone to coin the term "futurfuhrer".